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African Affairs Advance Access originally published online on June 13, 2007
African Affairs 2007 106(424):479-496; doi:10.1093/afraf/adm020
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. All rights reserved

Nation-building and communities in Oman since 1970: The Swahili-speaking Omani in search of identity

Marc Valeri

Marc Valeri (marc.valeri{at}gmail.com) received a PhD in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris in 2005

Since 1970, building a new national identity by reunifying Oman's ethno-linguistic groups has been at the heart of Sultan Qaboos's political project. This paper focuses on the place of Omani who returned from the former colonies of Zanzibar and East Africa, responding to Sultan Qaboos's call to ‘nationals’ abroad. While they played a leading role in the modernization process of the Sultanate, these Swahili-speaking Omani faced prejudices from the population who stayed at home and were forced to give guarantees to the others of their full belonging to the nation. As a consequence, despite their internal differences, they have progressively developed a new collective identity, which has its raison d'être within the framework of the modern Omani State, and can only be explained by the necessity to find their place in it.


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